Identifying units of analysis in STATA

[Lina Abbott]

Hi, I'm starting a master thesis and am very new to STATA with very little experience. I am looking at innovation in various technologies over time with regional data.

I have a data-set of regions (i) and their technologies (c) over 5 time periods (t). As a result, each region (i) has a number of technologies (c) and also data on each-year. How can I start using panel-data on STATA by telling to take into account this structure?

Thanks!

[Jorrit Gosens]

See the manual for xtset: https://www.stata.com/manuals13/xtxtset.pdf

[Carlo Lazzaro]

Lina:
welcome to this forum.
As an aside to Jorrit's helpful advice, you may want to consider reading https://www.stata.com/bookstore/micr...metrics-stata/.
I will also recommend you to increase your knowledge about panel data regression via a decent panel data econometrics textbook (see https://www.stata.com/bookstore/).